How to remove special characters from text using php and regex

Question

I have a string

$k="My name is Alice[1]";

What i want is to remove "[1]" from my string Using minimum steps,So that sentence will look like

$k="My name is Alice";

So antything that come inside [] should be removed.

Reeno · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-07 09:24:50Z

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Use this:

$text = preg_replace('/\[[0-9]+\]/','',$text);

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 9:24

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rccoros · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-07 09:26:28Z

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You can use preg_replace for this.

echo preg_replace('/\[[0-9]+\]/','',$str);

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 9:26

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Nikolay Kostov · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-24 07:33:13Z

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Do this:

$k="My name is Alice[1]";
$k = preg_replace('/\[[0-9]+\]/','',$k);

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answered Jun 24, 2015 at 7:00

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